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978-1-84659-057-3
Fiction
September 2008
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
160 pages
£7.99

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Chris Abani is a Nigerian poet and novelist and winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, as well as a PEN Freedom to Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.

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Chris Abani

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Chris Abani is a Nigerian poet and novelist and winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, as well as a PEN Freedom to Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He lives and teaches in California.

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'Song for Night contains, at once, an extraordinary ferocity and a vulnerable beauty all its own.'
New York Times

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Daylight comes like rust corroding night. It is cool from last night's rain and I stretch slowly, rested for the first time in months.

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